As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

"An iron railroad would be a cheaper thing than a road of the common construction." Here lay in a few words the idea from which our railway system has sprung.